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THORChain announced that the ZEC liquidity pool is now live, and the network has completed a node rotation, with all nodes beginning to monitor the Zcash chain.THORChain stated that trading functionality will be the next step; currently, liquidity is shallow, and early traders should be aware of risks such as slippage. Previously, THORChain added native support for Zcash in the protocol upgrade, including UTXO handling, RPC logic, and ZEC price oracles, and continues to advance mainnet integration.

MetaMask has released a follow-up statement regarding the previously disclosed infrastructure security incidents, stating that the team is continuously conducting investigations and addressing the issues.MetaMask stated that to ensure user safety, it has collaborated with relevant partners to take preventive measures and is currently withdrawing the affected validator nodes from its non-custodial staking business. According to the investigation results so far, there is no indication that MetaMask wallets or customer funds have been affected.This morning, part of the infrastructure of MetaMask's non-custodial staking business encountered a security incident. As a precaution, the validators operating on Lido have begun to withdraw.

Dan Tapiero, founder and CEO of 50T Funds, stated that the core assets in the digital asset space have entered a new bull market phase. He pointed out that the real revenue growth within the industry comes from stablecoins, tokenization, and companies like Kraken, Ledger, and Polymarket, which form the underlying fundamentals supporting the current market.Tapiero mentioned that Hyperliquid has been leading this bull market. Regarding investment choices, he revealed that he had previously opted not to invest in FTX, Celsius, and BlockFi due to valuation issues; he is currently raising $500 million for the 50T Fund and has invested $42 million in MoonPay. On a macro level, he is focused on themes such as Japan's 30-year government bonds and believes that in currency devaluation trades, Bitcoin and gold will hold an advantage in the long term.

Founder of Strategy, Michael Saylor, stated in a post that Bitcoin is digital capital, MSTR is digital equity, and STRC is digital credit.The company's corporate strategy is to create two complementary products from Bitcoin capital: MSTR provides leveraged Bitcoin exposure and holds ownership of a growing digital credit business; STRC aims to reduce volatility, compress duration, and provide dollar returns. Creating digital credit requires active management of the entire balance sheet, including Bitcoin, dollars, debt, preferred stock, and common stock, involving multiple decisions regarding capital, liquidity, priority, dividend rates, payment frequency, and investor terms.The company's goal is to create the highest quality digital credit products: supported by financial resilience, disciplined capital allocation, and a more stable investor experience to provide attractive dollar returns. Dividends are visible outputs, but the quality of the underlying system is the core work.The company engineers products by managing capital, debt, and liquidity. Investors seeking Bitcoin price exposure can directly hold BTC or spot Bitcoin funds; meanwhile, MSTR investors buy equity in a company that simultaneously seeks Bitcoin leveraged exposure and digital credit business growth, accepting amplified volatility and downside risk. STRC investors pursue a different experience: dollar returns, reduced price volatility, and shorter duration characteristics, relying on the company's capital strength, priority debt position, dollar liquidity, and active management to achieve this.The two are interconnected—capital structure directs more volatility and return potential of Bitcoin towards common stock, thereby providing credit investors with more stable income claims. The company manages the balance sheet uniformly, creating leveraged exposure for equity investors and dampened exposure for credit investors, both relying on the company's strength and execution quality.To achieve this goal, Strategy continuously manages various levels of the capital structure, including issuing and repurchasing STRC, distinguishing between payment reserves and allocated cash, adjusting dividend rates, optimizing security terms, and seeking shorter durations and longer payment runways.The company emphasizes that digital credit is a discipline that requires continuous practice: stripping volatility, compressing duration, and extracting returns from Bitcoin capital. Bitcoin itself does not pay interest, and Strategy pays dividends through security terms. The ultimate goal is to build stronger digital credit and create greater long-term value for MSTR shareholders, reinforcing the quality of capital and equity value.

Binance Wallet announced that Binance Alpha has launched Doppler Finance (XDP). Users holding at least 230 Binance Alpha points can claim 1666 XDP airdrops on the Alpha event page, on a first-come, first-served basis, until the airdrop pool is exhausted or the event ends.If the event has not ended, the point threshold will automatically decrease by 5 points every 5 minutes. Claiming the airdrop will consume 15 Binance Alpha points, and users must confirm their claim on the Alpha event page within 24 hours, or it will be considered forfeited.

Recently, the socialized Meme trading platform Baola, strategically invested by Gate Ventures, has entered the product internal testing phase. Baola is positioned as a socialized trading platform aimed at the Meme market, exploring the combination of social content and Meme trading around aspects such as hot topic discovery, market information tracking, community interaction, and trading participation.According to the official introduction, Baola's brand proposition is "Your next Meme is on Baola," aggregating information such as popular calls, KOL dynamics, on-chain trading data, and community interactions. Users can view Caller, the number of token mentions, market capitalization at the time of the call, and subsequent peak performance, and discover active market participants through features like KOL rankings and Callout boards, gaining insights into market hotspots and participant performance from multiple dimensions.In terms of community interaction, Baola supports users in independently publishing calls and market opinions, and allows them to continuously follow interested Callers through Follow. The platform also combines KOL public calls with on-chain trading dynamics, providing information on historical calls, recent performance, and buying and selling behaviors, further linking opinion sharing, hot topic discovery, and trading participation. Currently, Baola has entered the product internal testing phase and is continuously improving the socialized trading experience in the Meme field. Users can visit the official website (https://bao.la/) for more details.

MistTrack disclosed that following the $1.46 billion hacking incident at Bybit last year, where nearly $1.2 billion in stolen funds were transferred via THORChain, Bitget has recently experienced another significant security incident, with stolen funds suspected to have once again flowed through THORChain.In response, THORChain officials stated that their protocol, like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and BNB Chain, belongs to a decentralized and permissionless network.

CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. stated that the 30-day moving average of the adjusted MVRV crossed above its 365-day moving average on August 20, indicating that Bitcoin entered an early bull market phase, with a price at that time of $71,255. This phase lasted for 31 days, during which Bitcoin rose by 13%.

The Sui ecosystem decentralized finance protocol AlphaFi announced the initiation of an orderly shutdown procedure. It has now entered maintenance mode, halting new deposits and loans. Existing users can still close positions and withdraw assets.Previously, some loan positions in AlphaLend that used ALPHA as collateral experienced severe under-collateralization, leading to bad debts for the protocol. Currently, the related bad debts have been fully covered, and the protocol is solvent, ensuring user fund safety. AlphaFi will continue to cooperate with the Sui Foundation to investigate and recover related debts, and will officially exit the Sui ecosystem after the last user completes their withdrawal.

According to the official page, Binance Alpha has launched Gstock (GSTOCK) and BREW (BREW).

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Metalpha (0x2d2...E3A) withdrew 11,179 ETH from Binance 1 hour ago, worth 30.12 million USD.

Sources say that the United States and Iran are discussing a phased agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the U.S. blockade.

On September 24, WEEX Exchange announced that it will hold TOKEN2049 Singapore · WEEX Alpha Suite from October 7 at 9:00 to October 8 at 18:30 (GMT+8) at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, and registration is now open. During the event, WEEX will provide a dedicated communication space for global builders, traders, KOLs, and crypto enthusiasts to engage in in-depth discussions on topics such as market trends, industry innovation, and product development.The event will feature roundtable forums and selected AMAs, where leading crypto and tech teams will share insights on the future direction of the market. In addition, WEEX will showcase the WEEX AI real-time trading feature on-site, allowing users to experience AI trading tools and explore the WEEX Trading House. Coffee and tea breaks will be provided on-site, along with exquisite merchandise and customized souvenirs.

According to Binance spot market data, the market has experienced significant fluctuations. PHA has dropped by 17.42% in 24 hours, while VIRTUAL has risen by 27.16% in 24 hours, reaching a new high for the week.In addition, ALICE, FIL, FLUX, STG, HAEDAL, and ZAMA have all shown a "high pullback" status, with declines of 7.42%, 5.45%, 6.12%, 5.64%, 6.61%, and 13.02% respectively. Meanwhile, LDO has shown a "bottom rebound" status, with an increase of 6.3%, and TIA has slightly risen by 11.44% within 2 hours.

According to The Wall Street Journal, SpaceX plans to retire the "Falcon 9" rocket, prompting various parties to begin searching for new ways to launch payloads.

Bitcoin on-chain analyst Willy Woo stated that this round of movement seems to have room for growth in the next 2-4 weeks, after which it will enter an overbought phase and need to cool down.He also mentioned that from the end of August to mid-September, the oscillation indicator showed cooling while prices remained strong, indicating that buying demand overcame short-term profit takers.

The third-party AI inference infrastructure company, Silicon Flow, announced the completion of Phase II of its B+ round and C round financing. The company transforms computing power and models into directly callable Token services. By 2026, the cumulative equity financing amount has approached 2.9 billion yuan, and the amounts for these two rounds have not been disclosed.Based on the Token annual throughput in 2025, Silicon Flow ranks fourth among all Token suppliers in China, with a market share of 1.5%. The top three, Volcano Engine, Alibaba Cloud, and Baidu Smart Cloud, account for 42.7%, 32.5%, and 11.8% respectively, totaling about 87%. This round of investors includes the China Internet Investment Fund, Guoxin Fund, China Mobile Chain Long Fund, China Orient Asset International, as well as YaoTu Capital, Shengyi Capital, and Cathay Venture Capital continuing to invest.Silicon Flow's revenue in 2025 is projected to be 55.33 million yuan, with a net loss of 345 million yuan, and an overall gross margin of -24%. The company submitted its application to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange at the end of June and is currently applying for a main board listing under the 18C chapter "Uncommercialized Companies" rules. Beijing has just released the first provincial-level token economy special policy in the country, clearly proposing to build a "world-class token factory," and has listed inference engines, model and chip adaptation, and heterogeneous computing power as key directions.

According to Ember monitoring, after the AKE price briefly rose by 115%, it is suspected that its active market maker withdrew 216 million AKE from Binance Alpha 4 hours ago, worth approximately 13.83 million USD.This entity currently holds at least 1.24 billion AKE on-chain, valued at approximately 803 million USD, accounting for over 54% of the circulating supply. Ember speculates that AKE and the previously risen B2 may be operated by the same active market maker.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, B2 rose 120% from $0.41 to $0.9 this afternoon. It is suspected that B2's active market maker transferred 13 million B2 to Binance Alpha through multiple wallets, worth $10.44 million.This batch of B2 was withdrawn from Bitget and Gate about a month ago, when the price was $0.47, currently making a profit of $4.27 million. One of the receiving wallets is associated with the address that previously operated SIREN; Yu Jin believes that this active market maker may be the same party that previously operated SIREN, AKE, XPIN, and BTR projects.